On occassion, you may find it useful to be able to change all the filenames in a directory from UPPERCASE to lowercase, or vice versa. This will be particularly true if you’re copying over file from a Windows 95\/98 partition, since Windows is so inconsistent with its case handling. Here’s a shell script you can use to automate the process. Type or copy the following lines into Terminal, one at a time:<\/p>\n
\nfor i in * ; do\n j=`echo $i|tr 'A-Z' 'a-z'`\n mv \"$i\" \"$j\"\ndone\n<\/pre>\nTo change from lowercase to uppercase, reverse the order of ‚A-Z‘ ‚a-z‘. The script requires that the tr<\/b> utility be in your \/bin\/ directory, which it should be by default. If you think you’ll use this often, make a script out of it for later use. Paste the above into a text file, but add the line
\n<\/code> to the top, as the first line. Save it with the name „lowercase.“ Then make it executable by typing chmod 755 lowercase<\/b> into Terminal. Edit the file again to do the uppercasing trick, and save the new file as „uppercase.“ Run chmod on that too. Move both of these files to your \/boot\/home\/config\/bin\/ directory, and they’ll always be available to you from the command line.
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